New phone app makes college planning easier

MINNEAPOLIS - It's not easy talking to teenagers who are attached to their phones, but Delmy Suriano, a junior at Roosevelt High School, and her friends have a good reason to be glued to their screens.

The high school students are trying to figure out where they want to go to college, and they're doing it with the help of a new web app called the Minnesota College Planner.

It was designed by the Minnesota Office of Higher Education to help streamline the college application process. Suriano is using it to compare schools.

"This is very helpful because we can find how much it costs per year and what career do we want to be," Suriano said.